Windows 2000 DNS or Linux and Bind??

[Min Riyat]

Hi,

I need some advice. Does Windows 2000 DNS make for a good
DNS Commercial Server or should I go for a Linux machine
with Bind?? If Microsoft DNS is good, is it easy to
configure. I have no experience with Unix and I need to
make this as painless as possible.

I appreciate your time,

Min Riyat.

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

Windows 2000 DNS is good.

Since DNS is so important to Active Directory (if your DNS is down your
network is down), you don't want to be battling with an OS you're not
familiar with.

DNS running in Active Directory-integrated mode should make things
relatively easy. You don't say how big or small your network is, but it
could create unnecessary replication if you have lots of DCs that aren't
also DNS servers.

Oli

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

In

Hi,

I need some advice. Does Windows 2000 DNS make for a good
DNS Commercial Server or should I go for a Linux machine
with Bind?? If Microsoft DNS is good, is it easy to
configure. I have no experience with Unix and I need to
make this as painless as possible.

I appreciate your time,

Min Riyat.

As Oli said, it's great!

I've been using it for 3+ years now for commercial DNS hosting.

--
Regards,
Ace

Please direct all replies to the newsgroup so all can benefit.

Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory

 

[Kenneth Porter]

I need some advice. Does Windows 2000 DNS make for a good
DNS Commercial Server or should I go for a Linux machine
with Bind?? If Microsoft DNS is good, is it easy to
configure. I have no experience with Unix and I need to
make this as painless as possible.

Remember to ask the same question in comp.protocols.dns.bind. And take
answers from both newsgroups with a grain of salt.

It would help to know more about what you mean by "commercial server". If
your needs are generic, the 2k server should be adequate, but it lacks
support for some of the more exotic record types. I just checked the "Other
New Records" list and I don't see any DNSSEC types, for instance, so you
wouldn't be able to do signed zones.

 

[Jonathan de Boyne Pollard]

MR> Does Windows 2000 DNS make for a good DNS Commercial
MR> Server or should I go for a Linux machine with Bind??

Define "DNS Commercial Server". (Come to that, define "DNS Commercial".)

Do you want to be an ISP providing proxy DNS service for customers ? Do you
wish to publish DNS database content to the world for domain names that you
(or your customers) own ? Do you wish to provide proxy DNS service for the
systems within an organization ? Do you wish to publish DNS database content
internally within an organization for use by Windows NT version 4/2000/XP
machines ?

Incidentally: BIND is not the only DNS server software that is available for
Linux. Several popular public DNS hosting companies use "djbdns", for
example.

 

[Min Riyat]

Thanks for your response. I need to use DNS on Windows
2000 in such a way that i do not have to rely on my ISP's
DNS servers. If i used Windows 2000, would all I need is a
static IP address and configure DNS on that box with my
own namespace? I would need to have all my mail records
also sent to my external interface on my router. My ISp
currently is responsible for this.

Thanks in advance for your help,

Min Riyat.

 

[Min Riyat]

Thanks for your response. I need to use DNS on Windows
2000 in such a way that i do not have to rely on my ISP's
DNS servers. If i used Windows 2000, would all I need is a
static IP address and configure DNS on that box with my
own namespace? I would need to have all my mail records
also sent to my external interface on my router. My ISp
currently is responsible for this. I am already hosting
DNS on my internal network. The main purpose is to run my
own DNS for my commercial servers which have live
addresses. Is this possible??

Thanks in advance for your help,

Min Riyat.

 

[Min Riyat]

Thanks for your response. I need to use DNS on Windows
2000 in such a way that i do not have to rely on my ISP's
DNS servers. If i used Windows 2000, would all I need is a
static IP address and configure DNS on that box with my
own namespace? I would need to have all my mail records
also sent to my external interface on my router. My ISp
currently is responsible for this. I am already hosting
DNS on my internal network. The main purpose is to run my
own DNS for my commercial servers which have live
addresses. Is this possible??

Thanks in advance for your help,

Min Riyat.

 

[Min Riyat]

Thanks for your response. I need to use DNS on Windows
2000 in such a way that i do not have to rely on my ISP's
DNS servers. If i used Windows 2000, would all I need is a
static IP address and configure DNS on that box with my
own namespace? I would need to have all my mail records
also sent to my external interface on my router. My ISp
currently is responsible for this. I am already hosting
DNS on my internal network. The main purpose is to run my
own DNS for my commercial servers which have live
addresses. Is this possible??

Thanks in advance for your help,

Min Riyat.

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[William Stacey]

Yes. You can add 100s of zones if you wish just like bind. w2k3 now has
conditional forwarding (i.e. binds forward zones). One of the things ms dns
does not have is ACLs and Views. However, you can work around that and not
required in most cases. All-in-all I would not use anything else
internally. Externally, it is your call. If you have a Linux box hanging
around and don't mind managing two different platforms, then use bind. If
you have an NT or w2k server around, use that - the MMC makes it a snap to
view and manage your zones. You can also use things like dnscmd.exe for
batch file updates to zones/rr. HTH